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Congratulations to ARNIC member Dr Shabnam Shalizi – our latest PhD graduate!
Shabnam successfully defended her dissertation on April 19th. Her committee members were Professors Jonathan Aronson, Manuel Castells (Chair), Nick Cull, and Peter Robertson (Price School). Shabnam’s dissertation title is “The Missing Link in Global Value Chains: Women-Owned SME’s in Emerging Markets.” Congratulations Dr. Shalizi – we look forward to following your career!
Mark Cotham speaks to ARNIC on the challenges of librarianship in Sub-Saharan Africa
On Tuesday ARNIC was joined by Mark Cotham who spoke on the challenges of librarianship in sub-Saharan Africa. Mark Cotham is a largely retired attorney who practiced for over thirty years, primarily prosecuting claims by royalty owners against the world’s largest oil companies. Today, he runs a small non-profit (Good Steward Global Initiative) in Houston,…
Meet an ARNIC member – Matt Bui
This week we are putting the spotlight on third year doctoral student Matt Bui. In addition to his research at USC, Matt is also the Randall Lewis Data Science Fellow at the Southern California Association of Governments. Name: Matthew Bui General research interests: urban data science, digital inclusion, digital and data equity, telecommunications policy What projects are you…
Mimi Ito speaks to ARNIC on equity by design in learning technologies
On Tuesday Professor Mimi Ito joined ARNIC for our lunchtime seminar series. Professor Ito is a cultural anthropologist of technology use, examining children and youth’s changing relationships to media and communications. She is Professor in Residence and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning at the University of California, Irvine….
Meet an ARNIC member – Anna Loup
This week we are putting the spotlight on second year Communication PhD student Anna Loup. Anna has been an active member of ARNIC for several years and is currently working on some very exciting research projects! Name: Anna Loup General research interests: My interests are currently focused on researching the underlying critical infrastructures that enable and maintain…
Myria Georgiou speaks to ARNIC on the “refugee crisis” in the European press
This week ARNIC welcomed Dr Myria Georgiou to speak to members about her research team’s work on coverage of the “refugee crisis” in European press. Dr Georgiou is a visiting scholar at USC Annenberg this year and is currently working on two projects: a book on life in the digital city and a new project on…
Matthew Rantanen speaks to ARNIC seminar on wireless networking in tribal communities
Matthew R. Rantanen is the Director of Technology for the Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association (SCTCA) and Director of the Tribal Digital Village (TDVNet) Network/Initiative that was started in 2001 designing and deploying wireless networking to support the tribal communities of Southern California. Matthew, of Finnish, Cree Indian, and Norwegian decent, has been described as a “cyber warrior…
ARNIC attends the Ford and Hewlett Foundation ‘Digital Disinformation and Political Polarization’ Scholars Convening
Last week ARNIC members attended a convening organized by the Ford and Hewlett foundations on ‘Digital Disinformation and Political Polarization.’ The meeting bought together researchers from across the country to discuss the research gaps, data needs and real-world application of scholarship into disinformation and political conversation. Also in attendance were representatives from several top social…
Monroe Price speaks to ARNIC seminar on ‘Anxieties and Transformations’
This week ARNIC welcomed Monroe E. Price to speak at our lunchtime seminar series. Monroe E. Price has been, for the last decade, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania where he headed a Center for Global Communication Studies, now morphed into the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication. He graduated…
CCIG Project awarded new grant from Zumberge Diversity and Inclusion Fund
The CCIG (Connected Cities and Inclusive Growth) project was awarded a new grant from the Zumberge Diversity and Inclusion fund. The new grant will allow the CCIG project, led by Prof. Hernan Galperin, to pilot a research project called “Cyber Shelters: Online Resource Seeking and Social Capital Building among the Homeless in Los Angeles”. The…